The cheapest Alexa smart speaker just got even cheaper, thanks to Black Friday.
Amazon has just slashed the price of its Echo Flex speaker down to £9.99.
This compact smart speaker plugs directly into a wall socket and is an easy way of adding extra Alexa functionality throughout your home.
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With a price reduction of around 60% this could be the cheapest way of converting your house into a smart home, giving you voice control over everything from the lights to your thermostat.
Check out the deal on Amazon here: Echo Flex (£9.99 down from £24.99)
It's worth bearing in mind that the Echo Flex's built-in speaker is not great at music playback, and that the smart speaker plug-in is better suited to 'smart home' tasks like turning on your lights or locking the doors, or to asking Alexa questions.
However, the Echo Flex does come with an AUX cable output and Bluetooth connectivity so you can plug it into an external speaker.
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One reason Amazon might be flogging the Echo Flex so cheaply is because Alexa is losing the company tonnes of money.
A Business Insider report claims former employees called Alexa a "colossal failure" and "a wasted opportunity", with it losing billions of dollars for the company every year.
Amazon is due to cut more than 10,000 jobs from the firm as it struggles with monetizing its hardware. Although Alexa is one of the company's best-selling products, it doesn't make much money for them at all, with most smart speakers being sold at cost and generating no additional revenue for the firm.
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